mailscanner and debian woody 3.0

[Desai, Jason]

I don't suggest using Debian's version of MailScanner.  Download the tarball
from the MailScanner web site and follow the installation instructions
there.  I think I had to download some perl modules (and apply some patches)
and compile them too.  Debian Woody did not have everything needed.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jack mendez [mailto:wiler1 at EARTHLINK.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:10 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] mailscanner and debian woody 3.0
>
>
> okay here is the deal.
> i tried to install mailscanner with debian woody 3.0 and it
> failed, broke
> my /var/lib/dpkg/status file and put lots of stuff where it
> wasn't supposed
> to go.
> here is what i did.
> first, i upgraded to the newest version of f-prot.
>  (4.1.2)
> for this, i knew i'd need the newest version of mailscanner
> because the
> wrappers had changed.
> i downloaded the latest rpm version, downloaded and installed all the
> required perl modules, used alien to convert the rpm file to
> a .deb file,
> it appeared to work fine but no go.
> can anyone help with the install, or give some suggestions?
> thanks.
> Jack
>